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Tuesday, 29 May 2007

More advice for collectors / subsection / immortality

I ask if the stratospheric sums in today’s art market ever give him pause for thought but he remains resolutely unfazed. “I don’t see what else you can spend your money on,” he says of the super-rich. “If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That’s as close as you can get to immortality.”

Presentation notes (notes from various talks, usually with links to further information and references)

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On the radio

Once a month I drop into Radio New Zealand National as the arts correspondent for the Nine to Noon programme.